| Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum Contributor(s): Cavicchi, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819571628 ISBN-13: 9780819571625 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 780.973 |
| LCCN: 2011029924 |
| Series: Music/Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.02" W x 8.93" (0.91 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book Award (2012) Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2012) Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment--before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph--Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music. |
